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An hour of darkness

Not total darkness, mind you, but dark enough to notice.  When you walk outside, it’s almost like it’s really late and the stores are closed, but they’re not, the lights (if any) are just dim.  I finished dinner with some old colleagues when Earth Hour struck, and I decided to spend some quality time with [...]

Dan has a 48% chance of beating any other character in Street Fighter 4?!

… and Rose only has a 43% chance of beating everyone else on average?!  What sort of rubbish is this?!

Then again, there’s a chart involved, so okay.   ^^

A Japanese Street Fighter IV wiki ranked all the playable characters in the console versions of Street Fighter 4 into a chart.  Presumably, the chart displays the win chances [...]

Playing Street Fighter’s Ken: The Flowchart

Want to learn how to play Ken?  Just click the pic for a flowcharted tutorial!

Hilarious!  (^0^)

SOURCE:  Gossip Gamers

A new Battle.net for the digital distribution age

Seems like Blizzard is making sure it’s ready for the age of game communities and digital downloads (ala Steam).  Blizzard just announced the new Battle.net, an update to its free online matchmaking service.

The new Battle.net features a centralized account for all your games starting with World of Warcraft.  If you’re an existing WoW player, you [...]

Street Fighter 4, Round 2: The n00b experience

In my previous sessions of Street Fighter IV I used my pal’s PSN account.  All characters were already unlocked, some alternate colors, and several trophies/achievements have already been… achieved, and he’s already moved up the ranking somewhat (somewhat being a term used very loosely).  I wanted to test how the ranking system worked, and I [...]

Ever wondered why nobody wants to publish your “ground breaking” book?

Bibliophile Stalker‘s Links and Plugs for today just pointed me to the answer/s to that very question via Allan Mott’s “50 Reasons No One Wants to Publish Your First Book” list.  The entries are hilarious, some items almost being insightful.  But what really made this a must share was entry #43:

43. Writing a 97,236-word thesis [...]

Street Fighter 4, Round 1: Impressions on my 1st set of real play

When I threw my first shoryuken in Street Fighter 4, I was still starstruck at all the newness and the production values that assaulted my being.  I knew I wouldn’t be able to really get to know the game, so I just ran with it and tried to see smidgens on what the game had [...]

Watch[men] 80′s style cartoons on a Saturday morning

Ah, TGIF.  But there’s nothing like waking-up to Saturday morning cartoons!

[OMFG!!!  I just LOVE all the irony and sarcasm they packed in that minute and ten!  \(^0^)/ ]

The Daedalus Project to go into hibernation

Nick Yee‘s The Daedalus Project, which collates volunteer information regarding online games and gaming habits, will be going on hibernation, as Nick Yee announced in an email to all project participants.

“It’s been 10 years since I ran my first survey of online gamers, and a great 6 years running the Daedalus Project, but time [...]

PS3 intentionally made difficult to program for?

Some of you might have already stumbled upon this quote from the Feb 2009 Official Playstation Magazine made by Kaz Hirai, CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment:

“We don’t provide the ‘easy to program for’ console that (developers) want, because ‘easy to program for’ means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what [...]